The dev_t variable in devm_create_dax_dev() is used before it's first set: drivers/dax/dax.c: In function 'devm_create_dax_dev': drivers/dax/dax.c:205:39: error: 'dev_t' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] inode = iget5_locked(dax_superblock, hash_32(devt + DAXFS_MAGIC, 31), ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/dax/dax.c:688:8: note: 'dev_t' was declared here
This reorders the code to how it looks correct to me. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Fixes: 3bc52c45bac2 ("dax: define a unified inode/address_space for device-dax mappings") --- drivers/dax/dax.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dax/dax.c b/drivers/dax/dax.c index 68bb5e35b639..98dbbc12055f 100644 --- a/drivers/dax/dax.c +++ b/drivers/dax/dax.c @@ -731,6 +731,8 @@ struct dax_dev *devm_create_dax_dev(struct dax_region *dax_region, goto err_minor; } + dev_t = MKDEV(MAJOR(dax_devt), minor); + dev = &dax_dev->dev; dax_dev->inode = dax_inode_get(&dax_dev->cdev, dev_t); if (!dax_dev->inode) { rc = -ENOMEM; @@ -738,8 +740,6 @@ struct dax_dev *devm_create_dax_dev(struct dax_region *dax_region, } /* device_initialize() so cdev can reference kobj parent */ - dev_t = MKDEV(MAJOR(dax_devt), minor); - dev = &dax_dev->dev; device_initialize(dev); cdev = &dax_dev->cdev; -- 2.9.0